I’ve just installed my new 1 TB (7200 rpm. SATA II, 32MB cache) hard disk that is more than twice as fast as my old hard disks. My previous setup was 2 x 250 GB. And guess what. The system partition was on HD:0 while the boot partition (where Windows is) was on HD:1. I had to remove one HD, so which one should I remove. If I remove the boot partition HD then I would loose my Windows installation. If I remove the start partition I wouldn’t be able to boot anymore. What a mess. Who ever set up that configuration must have been crazy. Ok, I know where this comes from. The original computer shipped with 1 HD (Vista Home Business) and I wanted two HDs and Vista Ultimate. So the original disk (the start partition) was moved out of the way for the second HD which became the boot partition.
The solution to this was (after copying the old HD:0 data disk to the new HD) that I removed the start partition HD and booted into the Vista repair console which automatically fixed the missing /boot directory.
Now after I have managed to boot again I started to incorporate all the files from my previous computer that I replaced 2 years ago. Yes I’m late here but I didn’t had the time or better I forgot about it and when I remembered I wasn’t in the mood to do it so I forgot again. And what I found in my old PC backup folders…
Edit: I just found my old MIDI “database”. And some of those file have 8.3 file names. Now I need a MIDI port to output them on my old keyboard. : 
You missed a perfect opportunity to move forward to a fresh copy of Windows 7.
I always enjoy the chance to put in a new boot drive, reinstall the OS from scratch and clean out the clutter. The old boot drive gets set aside, and if anything goes wrong I can just slam it back in the system and be up and running instantly. After a few weeks of being sure you got everything important off the old boot drive, it gets reformatted and placed into a more data storage role, or even into an external drive case for an archival role.
I’m hoping to pick up a blazing fast drive for my machine in the next month or three as the budget allows myself (using an older 3 year old drive is the only thing keeping my windows experience index in the 5s)
> You missed a perfect opportunity to move forward to a fresh copy of Windows 7.
No I haven’t. I’ve split the new HD into two partitions. The first is empty and reserved for Windows 7. But I didn’t want to spend the whole weekend installing a new OS.
Upgrading to a new hard drive is great way of boosting performance, I upgraded my laptop HDD, and it has double the transfer rate – although the real world performance is only slightly better. On my home computer I have a couple of 320GB drives configured for RAID 0, and that really flys – I think my next configuration will be 4 drives in a RAID 5 configuration (3 striped – one parity).
Not Forget with good SSD harddisk you forget last 7200 rpm harddisk !
for ex. i use ocz vertex 120gb and i wonder of speed 200mB/s read !